South Carolina was challenged but stood firm, UConn tumbled out of the top 10 after a double-digit loss at home, and the ACC and Pac-12 especially are making ranking teams difficult. And it all led to more shake-up in the top five of ESPN’s women’s college basketball Power Rankings.
All eyes were on Baton Rouge, Louisiana, last Thursday, as defending champion LSU tried to give South Carolina its first loss of the season. But the Gamecocks keep triumphing over the chaos that nobody else has fully escaped — the kind that makes poll voters feel like they’re playing Jenga on roller skates. No matter how hard they try, they’re likely to slip up somewhere.
At least No. 1 is easy: SEC leader South Carolina has won 19 games in a row and remains the country’s only unbeaten team. Eight other programs are currently on double-digit winning streaks. The group includes Kansas State, which has won 15 games in a row and jumps to No. 2 in the Power Rankings prior to what could be one of the Wildcats’ tougher weeks in Big 12 play.
The Big Ten…
